* Tossups will be hard-capped at 8 lines. Please feel free to submit tossups that are longer than 8 lines, but do not submit any tossups that are shorter than 7 lines, or we will send them back to you. It seems like the other references to 7 were changed, so I just wanted to double-check: can we su...

The reason the data set is relatively small is that I had to manually read and categorize 60 packets worth of questions. In R, I used the total number of words in each category as a variable. Unfortunately, I won't have much time to work on this for some time, but hopefully I'll get around to it so...

Incomplete list of major changes to the A-value list by eliminating HS teams: Washington's final A-value would have increased by more than 50 points, although their raw A-value only increased by 2 points, because the order-of-finish correction averaging it with Saratoga HS would have been eliminate...

Could I see the max-flow question? I believe that "network flow" or "flow networks" should be promptable or acceptable for much of it since the question asks about a group of problems and max-flow problems are generally classified under network flow/flow network problems (see here for an example). I...

A lot of computer science questions at the high school level are on data structures or basic algorithms like sorting. An AP Computer Science study guide should help, especially if you can find one for the now-discontinued AB test which covered more data structures like stacks and heaps.

There hasn’t been any work done specifically on BEeS for over a year, so we decided to release the source code. Much of it is incomplete (and could use a code quality cleanup), but there is a packet parser that can read doc and docx files and convert them to formats like HTML and JSON. The success r...

We can gather conversion data about tossups in a straightforward manner, but we cannot do the same for bonus parts because we only record the bonus total. If scorekeepers kept track of which parts were answered we could get bonus part conversion data which would help determine the actual difficulty ...

There's question that stands out and it was the first tossup in either rounds 10, 12 or 14. (I want to say one of the first two but I really cannot remember.) Anyway, it was on something math related (I don't recall the answer.) but it read something like "First do this. Then do this. Then do this....

As requested I used the 2010 ACF Nationals to test the stat we used. To test only the stat I did no sorting based on W-L. As such the statistic was able to predict the Preliminary outcome to and overall accuracy of 71%. This is better than the calculated values for other tie breakers, and this is t...

A couple of points. 1) The giveaway for the queue tossup is misleading. A "horizontal stack" does not describe a queue since a horizontal stack would still be a last-in, first-out data structure (unlike a queue, which is first-in, first-out). 2) There were too many tossups asking for "Xs of Ys." Ans...

There was a question in DII on the New York World that seemed to reuse the leadin from last year's SCT.
The set bonus has a confusing description for intersection: it says that it is the operation that takes the elements from X and Y, which can also describe union.

Thanks for the feedback. It is highly likely now that ASU will host something on March 19. However, we have a new question for all our California comrades: Would you be interested in a MUT mirror, instead of/in addition to a Sack of Antwerp mirror? Depending on interest from U of A (which is imposs...

The link seems to be broken. I forgot that our college is undergoing power tests for the next few days, so server access will be sporadic. What do you do with questions that have answer lines like: ANSWER: Marriages of Elizabeth Taylor [accept stuff like Weddings, Espousals, Nuptials, or Matrimony ...

I wrote a program that takes packets saved as Microsoft Word doc files and translate them into a QBBot-formatted packet, QBML, or HTML. You can get it here . Looking over the readme file is recommended. I would appreciate any feedback on the parser. Let me know if it has any problems translating a p...

I know that there are 3 UCLAers interested (Guy, Ray, and Jerry). Do any teams have space for one of them. UCLA will contribute to your team fees proportionately. Right now we have 2 extra spaces that you can use. Also, if it's not too much of an inconvenience would you guys be able to pick me up f...

A few questions from us out-of-staters: 1) Does Mason Hall have an address I can use to punch into my GPS? I found it on the campus map but I couldn't find an address. 2) What are your suggestions for free/cheap parking near Mason Hall? 3) How bad are the LA-area interstates on Sunday mornings? We'...

Due to obtaining of car problems and public transit maybe not working for us to get there by 9:00, we may only have 1 team. We have 1 driver as of now, so If there is an odd number of teams, can you schedule one UCLA bye for the first round and then the rest of UCLA will show up at 10:00ish (assumi...

That is the opposite of fixed. I'm assuming the problem is that I still have a tentative team for UCLA. If not, what is incorrect? Field update: UCLA - 2 teams (2 buzzers) UCSD - 2 teams (at least 1 buzzer) Case Western - 1 team Caltech - 1 team (2 buzzers) Claremont - 1 team Claremont (tentative) ...

Also, it should be able to easily handle tossup-only tournaments since there are a number of singles events in that format. It should be easy to do this with an option. However, this reminds me of an issue: if there are no tossups or bonuses left when one needs to be read, what should the program do?

So is stat entry itself going to be strictly through an application or is there going to be a browser based option? From what I see it will either be done automatically (by sending the information to a central server) or it will be done in a program that takes in a file. I also forgot to mention th...

A log of the meeting can be found here . A basic summary: Slideshow interface for going through questions (can first see range of Tus/bonuses, then can click on previous/next buttons to go to the appropriate tossup or bonus). Show tossup number, score, tossup, and next bonus. Popup with summary of t...